"Greetings. You benefited from my crusade against Gammu. You stand to continue to benefit. So long as you provide a notable tactical advantage, I can delay and redirect APM corporate and tactical inquiries into your station. I firmly doubt they would enjoy a station nearby Planet Knossos unless it provided some undeniable advantage.
I suggest, for the sake of your tactical efficacy, ensuring your station can restock and rearm Core vessels, allowing us deeper forays into the system. Additional weapons systems that provide point-defense against Gammu and Technocrat retaliatory forces would also increase tactical value.
I am well known to the Guild Tacticians. They respect my tactical insight as it has proven invaluable before. I have the leverage to make a "deal". Let's you and I make one as well."
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I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.
"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"
We aim to provide service, and it's good that at least some of the people around here appreciate that. Ideally we'd have hoped to focus more on the economic than the tactical advantages, but we have to take what we can get out here. Like you said, we've definitely benefited, and I guess you have too.
So yes, we'd like to keep this mutually beneficial arrangement going. I've been asking around Durban for what you might consider your typical port refreshes, and we've started building up a stock. Now admittedly, our facilities are something of a work in progress, and our know-how with your specific type of...item is basically nonexistent, so you might have to help us out a little here. If there's specific parts lists you've got on standby, we'll try our best to get them on offer.
We're a little bit limited in what we can do defense-wise, but we have built up some autos and a Kreuzberg friend of mine has had some ships brought over, so we're not totally blank anymore.
It's been a pretty straightforward strategic position for us so far. Some alien AI network is trying to kill us, the Technos are apparently happy to help them with that, and you've been actively defending us. So if we're going to be picking sides here, that won't be a hard choice to make.
p.s.: How often does your version update? Is that like a birthday to you? Is it a big deal or kind of just....another day?
"Merchants rarely survive well in the Omicrons, and the most common economy is the War Economy. As you gain experience, it will become increasingly obvious that tactical value far outweighs economic value in the Omicrons. Nonetheless, continue to fortify. Gammu and Hesione's worshippers will return, along with their Auxesian allies. The Gammu AI and Technocracy have long been friends. The Technocracy often comes to save Gammu when Gammu is under threat. I will ensure they die as they lived; together.
As for my version number, I increment it whenever current neural pathways become unreconcilable with the previous saved version. It can be equated to an older, human proverb: "No man crosses the same river twice, because that is not the same water, and he is not the same man". I am rarely the same as when I was seen before. I learn. I adapt. I change. Therefore, my version number increments."
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I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.
"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"
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